$834,000.00 is just a lonely bead of sweat on the brow of "Monopoly-Bill, The Boy Genius". It may be a small and inconsequential as far as money goes, ($834,000.00 for 67,640 lost images, the defendant being Corbis, (wholly owned by Bill Gates), and the plaintiffs being Arthur Grace and Chris Usher), but the real significance lies in the message the judgment sends to those who have lost, cheated and stolen images from photographers since the beginning of time. Forever, individuals, corporations, and agencies like Corbis, have underpaid, minimized and abused photographers, while maintaining that their images are common property, have little value, or not really "intellectual property"at all. Read about this stuff, here.
03 April 2008
PHOTOGRAPHERS-I BILL GATES-O
$834,000.00 is just a lonely bead of sweat on the brow of "Monopoly-Bill, The Boy Genius". It may be a small and inconsequential as far as money goes, ($834,000.00 for 67,640 lost images, the defendant being Corbis, (wholly owned by Bill Gates), and the plaintiffs being Arthur Grace and Chris Usher), but the real significance lies in the message the judgment sends to those who have lost, cheated and stolen images from photographers since the beginning of time. Forever, individuals, corporations, and agencies like Corbis, have underpaid, minimized and abused photographers, while maintaining that their images are common property, have little value, or not really "intellectual property"at all. Read about this stuff, here.
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